From the Cover
Schedule F: The Phantom Menace
A Trump restoration of Schedule F and takeover of the federal bureaucracy is unlikely to play out the way either he or his critics imagine.
Behind the Issue
Unintended Consequences
The Podcast of Regulation
It’s tractor week at Unintended Consequences with special guest Ike Brannon, who is a Senior Fellow at the Jack Kemp Foundation, about the right to repair movement and the struggle of farmers over whether John Deere can restrict their right to tinker with their own tractors. But first, Peter and Paul talk about government restrictions on manufactured homes as well as efforts by state officials to override local opposition to upzoning. (For those interested in doing a little extra reading about how houses are shrinking, here is a deep dive from the New York Times.) And the episode ends with a surprising paper about how unions actually lower wages.
Features
Good Fences? Good Luck
The open-fields doctrine gives government vast powers to invade nearly 96 percent of all US private land.
The Durbin Amendment: A Short Regulatory History
The Fed is proposing to further lower its interchange fee caps.
A Criticism of ‘Right to Repair’ Laws
Manufacturers have some good reasons to limit buyers’ access.
Shapley Analysis: A Cautionary Tale
Lloyd Shapley’s pricing algorithm took the copyright world by storm, but does it really work?
The False Economic Promises of Offshore Wind
Only government mandates and subsidies can make the numbers work .
Briefly Noted
Unleashing Manufactured Housing
The United States presently has an estimated shortage of 3–5 million housing units.
Using AI to Boost Patent Quality and Equity
While small firms often have trouble getting patents, large firms are under fire for getting too many patents
Is the Federal Trade Commission Serious about Premerger Notification?
Some antitrust experts contend that the FTC’s rulemaking authority under the HSR Act should be read in light of the statutory authority to issue second requests.
In Review
Working Papers
A summary of recent papers that may be of interest to regulation’s readers